As the new rookie driver on the circuit, develop your racing skills to gain licenses and contracts from hungry owners and unlock legendary top performing cars from NASCAR's biggest stars. All-Pro Football 2K8 hits the gridiron with the legendary gameplay, innovative features, and hundreds of legends combined with an attribute system showcasing the well-known, signature abilities of each football star.

Wing Commander Arena is a fast-paced arcade-styled space combat game where gamers can team up with 16 players online to attack other teams of ships. Reprise your role as either Bill Rizer or Lance Bean in this follow-up to the arcade classic Contra, which made waves in arcades everywhere in 1987. Both titles are coming to Xbox Live Arcade Wed., July 25.

Previously Sierra released a new title update with new game types as well as the first of 3 map packs. Today the Synchronicity Pack is available on Xbox Live Marketplace for 550 points, adding five new multiplayer maps, 3 Capture the Flag and Conquer All ones (Dead Wood, Labs, Depot) and two Deathmatch or Control maps (Waterworks and Stockpile).

Dynasty Warriors: GUNDAM brings the fast-paced action-filled gameplay experience of Dynasty Warriors to the futuristic battlegrounds of the rich Gundam universe. After it appeared on the PSNetwork last month, Namco Bandai now also put the demo on Xbox Live Marketplace, where you, as Heero Yuy, must try to stop what seems to be a mysterious planet that is veering towards Earth.

Microsoft revealed its latest financial results and announced revenue of $13.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, a 13% increase over the same period last year. On the flip side, the games division recorded a $2 billion loss, mainly due to the Xbox 360 warranty policies and refunds.

Mafia hitman Jackie Estacado is part of the Franchetti crime family helmed by vicious cousin Paulie. On the eve of his 21st birthday, Jackie is suddenly possessed by the terrifying and spectacular powers of the Darkness. 2K Games has released a demo on Xbox LIVE Marketplace allowing you to try 3 early levels, the Tunnel, Cemetery and Grinders Lane.

Set 500 years after the original game, Fable 2 will offer even more choices and features, while building on the core gameplay theme of Fable where every choice continually defines who you become, allowing you to truly live the life you choose.

Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights features unparalleled vehicle customization, an adrenaline packed drift racing experience and ultra-realistic Driver DNA. THQ has released a whopping 1.3Gb demo on Xbox Live for its racing game.

GEON: emotions is a psychedelic, pick-up-and-play game of rapidly changing tactics. Playing as one of eight emotions – Rage, Passion, Fear, Envy, Rapture, Courage, Bliss or Melancholy – players must race to collect pellets and score goals, using power-ups and their ‘emotional’ strengths and weaknesses.

RPG created by acclaimed artists Takehiko Inoue (Japanese manga creator), Kiyoshi Shigematsu (famous Japanese novelist) and Nobuo Uematsu (Japanese music composer, known for creating the music for the Final Fantasy series of games). The game is produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the original Final Fantasy series.

Void Star Creations' Poker Smash is a fast paced puzzle game featuring 13 original soundtracks and next-gen 3D grahpics. Innovative gameplay allows players to experience six unique game modes including action, puzzle, practice, theme playlist, split screen head-to-head and multiplayer tournaments.

As a member of a black ops unit, your mission in Vampire Rain is to secretly eliminate a growing population of deadly vampires known as Nightwalkers. Your hands will sweat and your heart will pound as you use stealth, strategic thinking, and specialized weapons to face your supernatural foes. Be careful out there—because if you make one mistake, you're history.

Call of Juarez is situated in 19th-century Wild West featuring fast-paced revolver duels using historically accurate firearms, horseback riding, and memorable locations combined with top-notch graphics and an enthralling soundtrack to immerse both casual and hardcore players.

Microsoft has released the summer backwards compatibility update, adding 61, and 4 updated ones, original Xbox games that you will be able to play on your X360. At the time of writing it is not yet available on Xbox Live, so you need to download it here, and burn it to DVD. Titles of note are WE 8, PGR 1/2, Outrun, Full Spectrum Warrior, DOOM 3, America's Army and plenty more...

Two additional games will become available this Xbox LIVE Arcade Wednesday: Bomberman Live, mixing social gaming excitement with high definition graphics, and Yie Ar Kung Fu, a classic fighting game with enhanced graphics, hand painted backgrounds and new achievements.

Stuntman: Ignition challenges players to drive for perfection, dropping them into the adrenaline-fueled role of a Hollywood stuntman, vying to create the most insane high-flying jumps, mind-blowing corkscrews and metal-twisting crashes ever filmed. THQ has released a 640 mb demo on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation will let players experience Ace Combat on a massive worldwide scale as it features an in-depth multi-player online experience that includes a variety of action-packed online modes. Namco Bandai has released a demo for Ace combat 6, one mission defending Gracemeriain a F-16C Fighting Falcon.

Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer is based on both the comic book series as well as Twentieth Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment's movie sequel.

Revealed months ago, Ubisoft officially announced it will be releasing Third Wave Games's War World on Xbox LIVE Arcade, a fast-paced third-person shooter that combines a unique blend of heart-pumping action and tactical gameplay, introducing an entirely new genre to Xbox LIVE Arcade.

A few years back Vivendi made a weak attempt at releasing a Die Hard game, and more recently a few flash based games were available on the web to coincide with Bruce Willis' latest oeuvre. Now it seems the ESRB has updated its listing with an upcoming T rated Xbox 360 game based on the 4th die Hard movie, developed by Sensory Sweep Studios, who recently did the XBLA version of Street Fighter 2. More details to follow soon ...

PGR 4 tries to create an emotionally-charged racing experience, where players become attached to their careers, profiles and vehicles. Drivers will be rewarded with a growing fanbase that’ll cheer them on, react to their every move and support them through victory.

Now that Sony has officially announced its PS3 price reduction, Microsoft is expected to make its next move shortly. By switching from a 90 to 65-nanometer IBM CPU and AMD/ATI graphics chip, Microsoft will be able to reduce the x360's cost, size and heat, according to Mercury News' Dean Takahashi. Codenamed Falcon, the revised X360 is expected later this fall, and could include an internal power supply, or make use of the new space to add more costly things like it did with the Elite's HDMI.

Fearless Mafia hitman Jackie Estacado is part of the Franchetti crime family helmed by vicious Uncle Paulie. On the eve of his 21st birthday, Jackie is suddenly possessed by the terrifying and spectacular powers of the Darkness.

Virtua Fighter 5 raises the bar for console fighting games including all the features fans know and love plus enhanced gameplay mechanics, additional characters and new fighting styles, as well as newly redesigned 3D environments.